Available under Creative Commons-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this chapter, you will be able to:
- describe the differences between data, information, and knowledge;
- define the term database and identify the steps to creating one;
- describe the role of a database management system;
- describe the characteristics of a data warehouse; and
- define data mining and describe its role in an organization.
Introduction
You have already been introduced to the first two components of information systems: hardware and software. However, those two components by themselves do not make a computer useful. Imagine if you turned on a computer, started the word processor, but could not save a document. Imagine if you opened a music player but there was no music to play. Imagine opening a web browser but there were no web pages. Without data, hardware and software are not very useful! Data is the third component of an information system.
- 1820 reads
